A recent letter featured an imaginative baseball story to try and highlight the author’s premise that the skewed distribution of wealth and opportunity is accelerating, without offering any workable solution to changing the situation. After so many years of “Great Society” programs, the result...

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  The 600 megawatts of annual energy from the RREAL solar “furnaces” does not subtract the necessary fossil fuels, heavy equipment and toxic chemicals to extract the minerals (coal, copper, aluminum, etc), process, transport, manufacture parts, transport, assemble, transport, install and ru...

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Like my fellow Americans, I am deeply concerned about our nation’s financial future. Our representatives in Congress must come to a bipartisan solution. Gridlock along party lines will not get the job done. They were elected and paid to get work out a solution that benefits all the people....

The city of Brainerd and the Brainerd lakes area spend thousands of dollars each year promoting this beautiful area that we call “God’s Country.” We pride ourselves in the excellent medical facilities, schooling, lakes, golfing, resorts, shopping and all of the other truly fine amenities that ...

With all the recent talk about “cuts,” people are concerned about cutting government programs they like or that low income people will suffer. I think there’s a lot of fearmongering and misinformation going on, so let’s take a moment to clarify a few things. The budget is what the government...

Wow, $6.4 million in “transportation” funds to renovate the airport. Currently with two Delta flights daily that equates to about 100 passengers daily. “Oh” you say,” there’s more flights in the summer.” OK then 150 passengers a day for $6.4 million — what a deal. It nearly rivals hi...

Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XIII recognizing marriage as a union between a man and a woman...

It’s hard to believe that our lawmakers allow our corporations to move their industries to foreign countries creating jobs for people in other countries but losing jobs for people in our country. Ironically they sell most of their goods back to the same people they abandoned. It’s very hard for ...